Google Summer of Code Ideas

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>
>> I would like to see a stable C API for mapserver similar to Mapscript. 
>> Maybe it is just writing a SWIG wrapper for C code.
>>
> 
> I'd love to see that too, but I thought that ideally that would be done 
> by cleaning up the C code in the core of MapServer instead of creating 
> yet another wrapper on top of it. However, that's much more involved 
> than what I'd be willing to let a student do to the core of MapServer.

IF we ever get around to cleaning up the C code that would be great. But 
if we defined an API and SWIG'd it then that would be the API that we 
would clean up to, and it would give us a starting place. And it would 
be doable as a summer project.

I'm just saying ...
And you were asking for ideas ...